[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[Carrol Cox]

This reminds me of an interview with Marx by an American reporte that I
read somewhere years ago. At the end of the interview, the reporter
posed the question: "What is?" There followed so long a pause that the
reporter thought KM had fallen asleep, and then the reply: "Struggle!"
This was near the end of Marx's life.

Carrol

Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
> Dennis Perrin wrote:
> >
> > I feel the same way about the States. Why should our ideas about
> > social justice and political intelligence be normative in a country
> > where the larger culture promotes inequality, aggression, historical
> > lying and economic theft? Aren't we pushing our values on people who
> > find them appalling?
> >
> > Dennis
> 
> As a general rule, social change is the result of a dedicated and
> well-organized minority imposing their values on society as a whole
> (e.g., the American Revolution).   The sooner we discard the myth that
> social arrangements are the democratic result of the consent of the
> majority, the better.
> 
> Miles
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